The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-05-08
MISS KATE FIELD.
A Few Words for the Benefit of
the Lady.
To the Editor of THE HERALD.

| To the Editor of THE HERALD.
| VIII you please allow me space
enough in your valuable paper for the
p bIication of an open letter to Miss
Kate Field, and allow me !, say, BY
way of introduction, that from the
statements made in last Sundays Tri6-
une by all that to k part in the recep-
ton of the above-na ned lady, the idea
was thrown out that Utah and its peo-
ple-with the exceptionaof few AFRO
CANT, intolerant and bigoted self-styled
loyal people-that Utah is the worst
place IN these benighted States and
| Territories OF America. Now sir, |, as
as freethinker and aH American cit
zen, deny those assertions III toto, and |
| assert that it is a palpable falsehood
and libel on ell the honest, toiling ana
| business population of Utah, and that
| which is OF a disreputa0ie character be
longs to the SO call"d loyalists, with
very few exceptions, and this propose
to show in my open letter:
SALT LAKE CRY, May 6, 1887.
Miss Kate FieId.-You are out on a
lady's mission of reform or that is
what you cain to be the object of
that mission-the elevation of woman,
and those who receive your first atten-
ito are the plural wives connected
| with the Mormon church.
Do you think you will have any
time to spare for a few lectures on the
more gigantic evil of woman being
confined by the legion in Catholic
nunneries, that bid defiance to this gov
eminent to inspect?
How would little time count spent
in the way of reforming the tenement
house business in New York, and other
large cities where you can find three
generations, all huddled up in one
room and all you can find there is a
water for which they pay very dear;
all that you will be able to find that
don't cost them much is filth, dirt,
fever and smallpox.
Would it not improve things out
there if they could have as comfortable
homes as the majority of Mormon people
have out here? You say that a
plurality of wives is immoral. Does !
the Bible teach and support it? Is not
the Bible the foundation on which all |
sects, creeds and denomina lions build |
their churches? Do not they worship |
the same polygamous God? Is it not |
the same God that you sometimes talk |
about and swear by? If the Bible be
the cause of polygamy, why not assail
and destroy the cause, and stop the |
effect? Is not the Bible an obscene
book to teach such immoraliues Why |
do you not advocate the total destruc-
ton of the cause and so save the courts |
the trouble of Furnishing the victims
that it produces by its teachings? |
Was your ally, Ann Eliza, forced to
marry Brigham Young? Did she not
know that she would be wife No. 10? |
Tiff and his colleagues left the |
Tabernacle on Sunday because of the |
speakers reasonable utterances, they |
say. The speaker has sery1d his time |
IN the Pen. for cohabitatlon; be has |
always supported his wives and is bus
mess man. IlItf has a wife and family.
He is consumer. He distributes super
stition and ignorance, and lives and |
keeps his family off the product. Which |
is the best cltizetnL2 4 As you have become
corps, will you please tell me the differ
ence between licensed murderer dis
with a pension, and one dis |
Is not Catholic priest violating the !
laws of nature as much, or more, by not |
as No. mon does by marry
ing too much? Do you know that
the individuals making the greatest |
noise about polygamy don't care
whether man has one wife |
or twenty? That their trouble is
how Il they put into Office defunct |
generals, colonels,s captain majors |
and judges, so as TO get to the treasury |
of this Industrious people? New York |
has paid out of the treasury to Roman |
Catholic organizations between 1874 |
and 1886, over So 900, 900, contrary to its |
constitution: Don'G you think you
m ght put in some good time there? |
The population of Salt Lake City is
about 10000. One fifth of the popuIa-
ton is called Gentle. The pri on cal
endar shows that the one-ffth gives
seven-tenths of the prisoners. Don't |
you think that Catholics, Episcopalians,
Methodists, Baptists and Congregation |
alists, including the loyal people so.
called, should pluck the beam out of |
their own eyes before they pluck the |
mote out of others? Did Governor West |
help the women of this Territory to a |
higher state of liberty when |
he spent his time lobbying through |
the Acknowledgement bill? How is
it that the most bitter enemies |
Mormonism has'are those who have |
been nursed in its lap and sucked the |
milk in contentment, and without a |
word of fault-fnding, and especially |
the women, till they found some one |
fool enough to take them out. Then the |
abuse-Mrs. Boss is specimen. l have
lived some length of time here. and l |
have had some experience with this
people," also with all other creeds and |
denominations, and l must say that the |
Mormons come nearer being liberals |
than any othe sect, and II ore humane |
prejudice. bigotrv and intolerance to
the contrary notwithstanding
l shall be pleas, d to hear from you |
either through the press, or by letter or |
lecture, and invite discussion.
[ am yours for mental liberty for |
man, woman, and child
SALT LAKE CITY. w. WELLoCK.
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